Rational communications solutions for service design

Rational® communications solutions can help your organization to:

• Refine the service definition to include detailed requirements aligned with your architecture
• Minimize deployment challenges by providing unambiguous communication of your solution design and technical requirements
• Specify, visualize, manage, and document

What we offer

To help you meet your service design goals, Rational recommends the following products:

IBM Rational System Architect®
Rational System Architect lets you visualize, analyze, and communicate your enterprise architecture and business process analysis. It supports TM Forum Solution Framework (NGOSS) and SOA modeling for enterprise architectures.

IBM Rational Software Architect
Rational Software Architect lets you communicate your system architecture and design using Unified Modeling Language™ (UML), giving you the control point needed to make informed decisions and to communicate with and direct your outsourcers, ISVs, systems integrators, and development teams.

IBM Rational Modeling for Communications Applications 
The IBM Rational Modeling for Communications Applications offering gives you the ability to manage your solutions at a higher level of abstraction, thereby reducing the overall complexity and improving communication with other team members. Built-in support for key industry standards, including Telecom Web Services (Parlay X), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and the TM Forum Solution Framework (NGOSS), means delivering communications enabled applications can be easier and faster.

IBM Rational Rhapsody®
Rational Rhapsody is a family of UML/SysML-based model-driven development solutions for real-time or embedded systems. It improves productivity and quality, increases communication through graphic modeling, and provides validation through simulation and automated testing.